She Bought the Property Most People Ignore. It Makes $29,000/Month.

Episode #735 What if the best real estate investment isn’t the one with tenants, toilets, or employees, but the low-maintenance property everyone else is ignoring? Today’s guest is making thousands each month from one of these properties, and there are many more just like it. She’ll show you exactly how to find them! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Today we're sitting down with Bree Hartman, who went from one “accidental” rental property to building a $6 million self-storage portfolio –all while pregnant, working her W-2 job as a personal trainer, and cold calling self-storage owners on her lunch breaks. She did all of this as a complete newbie to commercial real estate from the other side of the country! Bree breaks down how she finds off-market self-storage facilities using a single tool, the exact cold calling script she uses to get baby boomer owners talking, and how she structured her very first seller financing deal. She even shares the five-point blueprint that shows YOU exactly where to invest. If you've been sleeping on self-storage, our conversation with Bree will wake you up to one of the most underrated assets right now! Episode Show Notes: https://lnk.to/realestaterookieYT Join BiggerPockets for FREE 👇 https://www.biggerpockets.com/signup?... 🎉Join us at the BiggerPockets Conference October 2-4 in Orlando. Buy tickets: https://biggerpockets.com/bpcon2026 Buy the Book _Storing Up Profits_: https://store.biggerpockets.com/produ... Sign Up for the Investor Brief Newsletter: https://www.biggerpockets.com/email-s... Find Investor-Friendly Lenders: http://biggerpockets.com/findlenders Is Self Storage Investing Right for You? Here’s How to Succeed: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/se... Connect with Bree: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/b... Connect with Ashley and Tony: Ashley: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/a... Tony: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/t... 00:00 Intro 03:37 Bree's Accidental Landlord Story 04:37 Why Self-Storage? 06:42 Buying Her First Facility 07:48 Commercial ISN’T Out of Reach 11:21 Numbers on the First Deal 13:38 The Second Deal: Seller Financing 22:43 THIS Is How You Cold Call 28:34 Self-Storage Deal Killers 33:51 The 5-Point Market Blueprint 36:51 Finding a $90K Deal (on Facebook!) 41:21 Connect with Bree